Green and gold ‘til the club is sold... again

You'd can't have missed that fact that there's been a hell of a lot of green and gold scarves around Manchester recently. The colours are apparently those of Newton Heath FC, which went on to become Manchester United. And the colours have now come to represent the mass movement by United fans to oust the Glaziers, the club's current owners.

The 'evil' Glazier regime, of course, who bought the majority shares in the Plc they had no right to! The guys who've been in charge during one of the most successful periods in Manchester United's history. I have to admit, I find the whole saga rather amusing. I’m sorry, but you reap what you sow. If United hadn’t become a Plc all those years, and got all that lovely shareholder cash, would they have become the force they are today ? Of course not. So, you have to take the rough with the smooth.

Just how do you think the current ‘best player on the planet’, Wayne Rooney was bought - Ronaldo too, and Berbaflop, Veron, Hargreaves, Nani, Ferdinand, etc - all multi-million pound players paid for with the money that was generated after Manchester United went public and hit the big cash big time.

United fans may be used to having it all, but what do they really hope to achieve by having 40 fans on the board ? 40 fans, who will not only have to put a shed load of their own cash, but they will have to borrow too. Yes, don't be fooled that Manchester United can continue to compete both domestically and in Europe unless it continues to invest - in the stadium and infrastructure, the players, and everything else that goes with being a global brand. It never stops.

It is nice to know that some fans still believe in getting back to their roots, but they need to accept that it is money, and the likes of the Glaziers, that has made the club what it is today - one of the most successful sporting franchises in the world. And ask the fans of any other club whether they'd like to have the Glaziers on board, and have the success that Manchester United has enjoyed in recent years. It's a no brainer.

Manchester United fans should be out celebrating their club's good fortune, not slagging off the very people that were instrumental in bringing it about!